IoE Number:380313Location:CHATTERTON'S HOUSE AND SCHOOL AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALL, REDCLIFFE WAY (north side)BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOLPhotographer: Tony Byram LRPS DPAGBDate Photographed:03 June 2001Date listed:08 January 1959Date of last amendment:30 December 1994GradeII

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BRISTOL
ST5972 REDCLIFFE WAY
901-1/42/235 (North side)
08/01/59 Chatterton's House and School and
attached screen wall
(Formerly Listed as:
REDCLIFFE WAY
(North side)
Chatterton's House and School)
GV II
House and screen wall. Dated 1749. Limestone ashlar, render,
brick eaves stacks and hipped pantile roof. Double-depth plan.
2 storeys; 3-window range. Central doorway has a flat canopy
on thick, scrolled brackets over a C20 porch, with 6/6-pane
sash windows in flush boxes and a parapet. A plaque above the
door reads THIS HOUSE WAS CREATED BY GILES MALPAS... AD 1749,
and a second reads THE BIRTHPLACE OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Along
the right-hand end is an ashlar screen wall, one storey;
2-window range: symmetrical with a pediment on rusticated
pilasters with 2 keyed, segmental-headed windows with
architraves; flanking sections are set back with keyed
doorways, Pennant cills, a C20 door to the left and inserted
sash window to the right. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL
NOTE: Thomas Chatterton the boy poet was born and schooled
here, under his father the school master.